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Reason magazine (729 words) |
 | Surprisingly few commentators have challenged Singer's dubious basic premise: that human beings have no special status or worth and that ''speciesism'' is a prejudice not much different from racism. |
 | There is, writes Machan, ''no valid intellectual place for rights in the nonhuman world... |
 | If humans have no special moral status, it's hard to argue that they have special moral obligations - toward fellow humans or toward other creatures. |
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 | most people love pets and beg for pets from their parents by the time they can form sentences. |
 | i recently heard of a woman who was carrying a pet hedgehog around town in her purse. |
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